No more “Mr. Nice Guy”! Last week, President Barack Obama disappointed many of us by going out of his way to be a “nice guy”, and thus letting pathological liar Mitt Romney get away with his colossal falsehoods and brazen deceit during the first Presidential debate.

Such was not the case during the Vice-Presidential debate last night. Joe Biden took off the gloves and exposed Romney and Lyin’ Paul Ryan for all to see—Romney’s and Ryan’s utter contempt for the middle class; their disdain for women’s rights; their insistence on massive tax breaks for the very rich; their plan to gut Social Security and Medicare.

Those who watched the debate also owe a debt of gratitude to the moderator, Martha Raddatz, who kept the debate on track, unlike last week’s incompetent debate moderator, Jim Lehrer, who allowed himself to be bullied and steamrolled by Romney. To Ms. Raddatz’ credit, she attempted to pin the debaters down on specifics, which Ryan, of course, evaded for obvious reasons.

So congratulations, Joe, for telling it like it is, and for exposing Romney and Ryan for what they really are. Let us hope that President Obama follows Biden’s lead in next week’s debate.

Mr. Cantor, I do not see the suggestion of causation that you are perceiving. Far from any conjunctions, prepositions, or prepositional phrases linking Obama’s lackadaisical performance to the competence of the moderator, I see that Mr. Rose (who is an old fellow who doesn’t tend to check the comments sections like we do, so we have to interpret him like the Dead Sea Scrolls) actually gave the moderator comparison its own paragraph.

I think this is a bit of a Rorschach Test, which you approached as a Republican expecting to hear nothing but excuses for Obama’s desultory appearance of last week. I don’t read the whole short essay that way at all. But I will defer to other, more seasoned, Eddie Rose scholars.

I was thinking, perhaps he made the common mistake of setting his speech-to-text software in the bathroom, on the floor, right next to the john. I’ve seen this sort of thing before. The smell is unmistakable.

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning, you know one time we had a hill bomb, 12 hours. When it was all over I walked up, we didn’t find one of them, not one stinking dink body. Smell, that gasoline smell, smells like… Victory.”

*Seriously folks….don’t you think Mitt Romney reminds you of Herman Munster….and
Ryan looks just like Eddie Munster……Ann Romney could wear a long black wig for Halloween and then we only need some uncle to drive the car!